As I pick up e-mails at close of play I pick up a request from a friend for details of this strange green drink I enjoy, aka Supergreens. It’s almost a year since I started drinking it (two litres a day most days) and my skin is supersoft.

More recently I have been making changes to my diet after reading Robert Young’s book The Ph Miracle. This is one of a number of books which point to the benefit of a diet which is based substantially on alkaline-forming foods (basically, greens) in place of the acid-forming foods that comprise a modern Western diet.

Three months in I am realising this is a journey rather than an overnight transformation. Giving up coffee and tea has been a major step and largely successful. I’m happily eating salad for breakfast most days. Giving up dairy products is proving more of a challenge – how hard I find it to say “no” to a chunk of mature cheddar or strawberries and cream!

More than anything, in recent days, it’s been a marker for my progress that I can now say “I am becoming an alkalarian” without giggling.